[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy

[Kathy Lussier]

Hi all,

I was following the discussion from the DIG hack-a-way today, but didn't 
have time to chime in.

+1 to Jason's comments. I think we have some disagreement on the 
proposed addition to the policy, but, overall, my sense is that the 
community is fairly happy with how the original policy has been 
implemented and with the way we handle the Evergreen listing.

> Here's part of my confusion, we already say that vendors listed are 
> supposed to have an Evergreen offering page.  This is copy and pasted 
> from the "Getting Listed on the Evergreen Paid Support Services Page" 
> on the WIKI:
>
> "Show support for the Evergreen community by adding a visible link on 
> their Evergreen offering page to the Evergreen community web site at"
>
> How is a link back to that page a big deal?

I was surprised to see that we were already requiring an Evergreen 
offering page, which is a bit embarrassing since I was the person who 
pulled together that original policy. I suspect this is an accident of 
language that was used in making the link-back requirement. It is taken 
almost verbatim from the Koha policy, and I also may have been making a 
false assumption that all vendors would already have this page. A review 
of the original discussion confirms this suspicion as they was a lot of 
discussion regarding support for a link-back requirement, but no mention 
of a requirement for an Evergreen services page. Mea culpa.

I can also say that requirement is a piece of the policy that has not 
been enforced as there are existing vendors on the page that do not have 
an Evergreen offerings page. The only check I have made when adding 
vendors is that they comply with the link-back requirement. 
Nevertheless, the language is there, and if we decide to enforce it, 
then I guess we will need to contact any vendors who don't comply to ask 
that they create this page. At this time, I'm still a little hesitant to 
make that requirement.

Have a nice weekend everyone!

Kathy

Kathy Lussier
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On 9/12/2014 3:33 PM, Sharp, Chris wrote:
> For the record,
> +1
>
> Chris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Jason Etheridge" <jason at esilibrary.com>
>> To: "Evergreen Discussion Group" <open-ils-general at list.georgialibraries.org>
>> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2014 2:08:38 PM
>> Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Proposed change in Vendor Listing Policy
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 12:13 PM, Lazar, Alexey Vladimirovich
>> <alexey.lazar at mnsu.edu> wrote:
>>> Vendors, we would appreciate if you could show your support for the
>>> Evergreen community by linking back to our web site at
>>> http://www.evergreen-ils.org/.
>> Speaking as an individual, I would prefer that we keep this a
>> requirement.  It's more than a fair "trade" for being listed on our
>> community website.  IMO, it's a show of solidarity with the Evergreen
>> community and a hedge against those who might want to fork the
>> software or keep changes to themselves in this new software as a
>> service world.  If you're going to use Evergreen to "compete", then
>> do
>> so on a level playing field.  Let others know what software you're
>> using and what that really means (that there is choice).  In other
>> words, compete on merit, not obfuscation.  It benefits everyone.
>>
>> --
>> Jason Etheridge
>> | Support Manager
>> | Equinox Software, Inc. / The Open Source Experts
>> | phone: 1-877-OPEN-ILS (673-6457)
>> | email: jason at esilibrary.com
>> | web: http://www.esilibrary.com
>>

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